Cape Winelands Film Festival

by alexander on 08 March 2011

The 4th annual Cape Winelands Film Festival will be held in Oude Libertas, Stellenbosh and in various venues in Cape Town. The festival was founded to make it easier and more interresting for new and upcoming filmmakers to showcase their material. Based on the event last year, filmmakers are very fond of the festival. More than 450 films were submitted from all over the world, however not all were showcased. This year, approximately 250 films will be shown during the ten days the festival takes place. With a lot of films within short films, documentaries, animated movies, feature films, there will, without doubt, be plenty of movies for every taste. Beside the many movies, you will also have the opportunity to attend various workshops and writing competitions for screenplays.

At the festival the movies will be competing for the following awards:

Grand Prix Jury Award.
Best Feature Film Award
Best South African Feature Film
Best Documentary Award
Best South African Documentary
Best Short Film Award
Best South African Short Film
Best Animation Award
IFG Inspiration Award ( First time feature film directors)

For further information visit www.films-for-africa.co.za.

Cape Winelands Film Festival

Date: 16th- 26th of March 2011.

Location: Oude Libertas, Stellenbosch and various venues in Cape Town.

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Carla Visser says:

23 Mar 2011

My husband and I are attending every screening in the amphitheatre while we are here in Cape Town. Such a great event but would have liked to see more films from the Netherlands at the festival. Will certainly work on that once we are back home !
C Visser
Alkmaar
Drive South Africa says:

24 Mar 2011

Hi Carla,

Thanks for the update, let’s hope we see more Dutch films at the 2012 Cape Winelands Film Festival.

Safe passage back to the Netherlands, and stay in touch.

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